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Rh 1817); Yen Chieh 嚴杰, and Yen Yüan-chao 嚴元照 . When, in 1797, Juan Yüan went to examine the students of Ningpo, he visited the library, T'ien-i ko, in that city and ordered its owners—the Fan family—to compile a catalogue of their collection (see under ). During his term in Chekiang he compiled an anthology of the poets of that province (from the early Ch'ing period to the end of the Ch'ien-lung period), entitled 兩浙輶軒錄 Liang-Chê yu-hsüan lu, 40 chüan, printed in 1801. A supplement (補遺 pu-i) in 10 chüan was added in 1803. Both the original and the supplement were reprinted in 1890 by a later director of education of Chekiang, P'an Yen-t'ung 潘衍桐 , who continued the anthology beginning with the Chia-ch'ing period (1796–1821). P'an's continuation, entitled Liang-Chê yu-hsüan hsü-lu (續錄), 54 chüan, was printed in 1891 with a supplement in 6 chüan. Juan Yüan completed his term of office in Chekiang in 1798 and recorded his experiences in the form of miscellaneous notes, entitled 定香亭筆談 Ting-hsiang t'ing pi-t'an, 4 chüan, printed in 1800.

Juan Yüan returned to Peking in 1798, and early in the following year was made senior vice-president of the Board of Revenue. He served as one of the directors of the metropolitan examination of 1799—an examination that is celebrated for the number of those taking it who later became eminent scholars or rose to high posts. In 1799 he was again sent to Chekiang—this time as acting governor. In 1800 he was made full governor, in which capacity he served for more than nine years (1799–1807, 1808–09). Again he devoted himself to the promotion of scholarship in that area, establishing in 1801 at Hangchow the famous Academy, Ku-ching ching-shê 詁經精舍, for the study of the classics and literature. The first directors of the Academy were and —the former lecturing on literature, the latter on the classics. Of the students of this Academy who achieved fame may be mentioned, , Chang T'ing-chi 張廷濟 , and Chang Yen-ch'ang (see under ). The writings of the teachers and students were collected and printed in 1802 under the title, Ku-ching ching-shê wên-chi (文集), 14 chüan. Juan also printed several works by his contemporaries, such as the collected writings of in 1803 and the Hsi-ch'ao ya-sung chi (see under ) in 1805. As governor of Chekiang Juan was also remembered for his administrative ability, as demonstrated by the manner in which he directed a campaign against pirates (see under ).

Juan Yüan's interest in antiquarian and bibliographical matters continued unabated. His documents relating to the restoration of temples and tombs, and the methods to preserve them, were printed in 1801 in a work, entitled 兩浙防護陵寢祠墓錄 Liang-Chê fang-hu ling-ch'in tz'ŭ-mu lu. In July 1805 his father died, and in the ensuing period of mourning he printed (1806) his own collation notes on the Classics, entitled 十三經校勘記 Shih-san ching chiao k'an-chi, 243 chüan, and annotated certain miscellaneous notes made by Emperor Jên-tsung, entitled Wei-yü shu-wu sui-pi (see under ). Finding in the Ssŭ-k'u ch'üan-shu (see under ) some important omissions, Juan Yüan began to collect items which he thought should be incorporated. When he went to Peking in 1807 he presented to the throne sixty rare works together with his own bibliographical annotations. By 1822 the number of his suggested additions to the Ssŭ-k'u ch'üan-shu reached 175. Juan's annotations to these works appeared in the same year under the title Ssŭ-k'u wei shou (未收) shu-mu t'i-yao.

Late in 1807 he became junior vice-president of the Board of War and in the following year—after serving for a few months as governor of Honan—was again sent to Chekiang as governor. There he established (1809) a library in the monastery, Ling-yin ssŭ 靈隱寺, near West Lake, Hangchow. This library, known as Ling-yin shu-ts'ang (書藏) was destroyed in 1861 when the Taipings took Hangchow for the second time (see under ). In Chekiang he resumed his campaign against the pirates whose suppression in 1809 was due partly to his efforts. But in that year (1809) he was degraded to a compiler of the Hanlin Academy for shielding a subordinate.

In 1810 Juan volunteered to write biographies of classicists and mathematicians for the national history. Two years later he was again made a vice-president—this time of the Board of Works Later in the same year (1812) he became director of grain transport with headquarters at Huai-an. Kiangsu. While filling this post he established (1813) a library in the monastery on the island of Chiao-shan 焦山 near Chinkiang, which 400